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>> in asian megacities like Tokyo nature is a train ride away Only if you consider nature to be like a city park crowded with people. Real nature doesn't start
by nec4b 3y ago
>> in asian megacities like Tokyo nature is a train ride away
Only if you consider nature to be like a city park crowded with people. Real nature doesn't start at train stations.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoThe Tokyo area has fabulous public transit that will take you halfway up a mountain. It's usually a bus, though. We went mountain hiking every second weekend or so when I lived there. We always took transit.
- nec4b 3y agoThat's nice, but you still only saw a small bit around that particular mountain of of thousands that exist in japan, and you probably weren't exactly alone if there is a bus route from the city to there. It is not what I image when somebody says nature.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoWe typically went 100 - 200km on those bus routes, so we covered a few hundred square kilometres. Sure the start & end of those routes was more populated, but they drove through lots of unpopulated areas. Being mountainous Japan has lots of those. We often went without seeing a single person once we got off the bus until we got to our destination (usually an onsen).